Full Day Old Tbilisi and Mtskheta Eco (budget) Tour

Please note! What’s the difference between ECO and Standard tours. In ECO tours, you’ll be served with guide-assistant instead of a professional guide. The assistant is a person who’s doing practice in our company to learn basics of travel guiding service, knows the basic material of all destinations travelers will visit but he/she is not a professional guide. The car you’ll be served is a standard class vehicle and could be with right wheel drive.
In Eco tours, you could be joined to other travelers in contrary to standard tours that are always private, individual ones.

Get a memorable experience at Georgia’s history and heritage during private city tour in Old Tbilisi and Mtskheta. Follow the private guide through Tbilisi and discover attractions including Holy Trinity Cathedral, take the cable car to for Narikala Fortress and enjoy with panorama on Tbilisi, visit Bath Quarter and explore a nearby waterfall, discover Sioni Cathedral and Anchiskhati basilica (VI c) that is the oldest remained church in Tbilisi.

In the afternoon, explore UNESCO listed Mtskheta – the ancient capital of Georgia where Christianity was nominated Georgia ’s a state religion in 319 AD. Soak the atmosphere in the historic town and discover landmarks such as Jvarei church (VI c. UNESCO) and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral (XI c. UNESCO)

Highlights:

• Old Tbilisi
• Metekhi Church
• Narikala Fortress
• Bath Quarter
• Peace Bridge
• Aerial tramway
• Shardeni Street
• Mtskheta City
• Svetitskhoveli Cathedral (XI c, UNESCO)
• Jvari Monastery (VI c, UNESCO)

Travelers have an opportunity to explore amazing Georgia even in short time. In this case, they have to spend 3 hours strolling in Tbilisi Old Town. The architecture in the city’s historic district is a beautiful mixture of Georgian, Byzantine, Oriental and Neo-Classical European styles.

Tbilisi was founded more than 1,500 years ago by Vakhtang Gorgasali, King of Georgia (known as Iberia at the time) in the second half of the 5th-Century AD. The toponym derives from the Georgian word for warm, “T’pili.” Sliced by the longest River of Georgian – Mtkvari, which divides the city west and east.

You will visit the Greek Orthodox Anchiskhati Basilica (VI century AD), the city’s oldest church. You will also see the 13th-Century Churches of Sioni and Metekhi, the magnificent Narikala Fortress, perched on a hill with superb views of the city below, and the classical Freedom Square.

Travelers will visit one of Tbilisi’s newest attractions, the Bridge of Peace, which opened in 2010 over the River Mtkvari (also known as the Kura River). Cause of Tbilisi’s compact size you can easily explore the nearby Synagogue, Armenian Church and Mosque, in addition to the Georgian Orthodox churches so fundamental to Georgian culture. Peaceful co-existence of the various religions for many centuries emphasize once more Georgian tolerance.

Tbilisi walking tour ends visiting of Oriental style sulfur baths quarter of Abanotubani to see the most famous bath, Chreli Abano. According to the legend, it was built when King Vakhtang Gorgasali’s falcon companion fell that Tbilisi’s “warm” sulfur springs were discovered; helping to give it its Georgian name.

Continue in the afternoon to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Mtskheta, the capital of Georgia (formerly Iberia) from the 3rd-Century BC until the 5th-Century AD. It was the site of early Christian activity and the place where Christianity was proclaimed as the state religion of Georgia in 319.

Located about 12 miles (20 kilometers) northwest of Tbilisi at the confluence of the Rivers Mtkvari and Aragvi, Mtskheta remains the center of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church.

You will then be transferred back to Tbilisi for your hotel drop-off.

Duration: 6-7 hours
Driving distance: 70 km
Season: All year around